From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: TeX Live Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvevidii.fsf@elephly.net> References: <871s3a4xd4.fsf@gnu.org> <874l6w23vg.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87zhooagzx.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87zhoozq0v.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hH8Ci-00008K-Ce for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:39:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hH8Cf-0004wq-GG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:39:55 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hH8Ce-0004w0-0x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:39:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhoozq0v.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix-devel Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> For the specific usability issue you mention (what=E2=80=99s the right p= ackage >> to install when one wants tables?), I think we should add a section in >> the manual, as has been discussed before. > > No package, this is default LaTeX. I think this is one and the same thing. When I wrote the first modular package definitions I just looked at the LaTeX base packages, tried to build them, failed, added package definitions to address the failure, and repeated until things wouldn=E2=80=99t fail any more. This means that the set of packages that gives us a =E2=80=9Cdefault LaTeX= =E2=80=9D experience are incomplete. I suggest taking a closer look at the ingredients of texlive-latex-base. Many of the packages that contribute to it may actually be woefully incomplete. For each of the packages we should compare the expected output (according to the texlive database) with the actual output. Some cases may be a little tricky, but overall I think the problem is not too difficult to solve with systematic work. With some luck I may be able to take a look at this next week, but I=E2=80= =99d be happy if someone with a clear head took the lead instead. -- Ricardo